ON TOUR-Whitney Houston continues her ‘Tm Your Body Tonight World Tour" which kicked off on April 18 In Knoxville, TN. The 70-dty tour, which lies boon sizzling across the U.S, and Canada, wiH continue through late summer. Houston w* be performing in Raleigh on July 7, at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre. Best American Products Named In Marketplace NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-Rent-a cars, razors and roach bait are three American products and services that are the best in the world, accoridng to a special issue of Fortune magazine devoted to competitiveness in the American marketplace. Some of the products are so new, like an Amgen, Inc. drug that treats anemia in kidney dialysis patients, they aren’t even on the market. Others have been household names for generations. The special issue released Thursday and titled “The New American Century” describes the products as the best “year in and year out.” Computers and » other communications equipment are fatured prominently. At the other end of the sacale are $3.50 Gillette Sensor razors, Combat’s $4.29 roach-bait traps and temporary services offered by Manpower starting at $7 an hour. The magazine said it combed the marketplace for superior, non military goods that feature some combination of design excellence, superior manufacturing, top technology, reliability and value for price. Among the other products and services singled out: •Rental cars. Avis and Hertz with a worldwide fleet of 800,000. •Yachts. Brunswick Corp.’s 63-foot Super Sun Sport featuring ceramic tile floors, gold faucets and a $1.2 million price tag. •Luxury goods. Judith Leiber handbags ranging in price from $750 to $6,000. •Backpacks. Osprey’s Xenith backpack anatomically designed to hug the body. •Medical equipment. Acuson’s ultrasound computer, which improves the view of internal body organs, and Osteonics’ titanium hip joint implants, which last 30 years. •Helicopters. Robinson’s R-22 chopper, costing just over $100,000. •Apparel. Jockey briefs. ■Pens and pencils. Cross pen and pencil sets. •Computrers. Thinking Machines’ CM-2 computer that links thousands of microprocessors together so the computer works like a human mind. •News services.CNN. for its coverage of the Gulf War. •Oil drilling. Smith Internationales Dyna-drill motor, which can change direction as it bores. Kravitz Shouts Style, Music Rated Highly NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)-Lenny Kravitz sounds a little like a popular sport shoe commercial when pressed to describe his creative process in making music: “I just do it,” he says. “I don’t demo stuff at all,” the singer-songwriter says of his craft. “When I go in the studio, it is to make the record.” ' He says he made his latest album, “Mama Said,” in spurts. “I would go in and do some and have to go back on the road, over a few months.” Kravitz’s cryptic recording methods seem to work. The album, his second on Virgin Records, jumped onto the charts in Cashbox Magazine, at No. 43 in April. His first album, “Let Love Rule,” came out\in the fall of 1989 and prompted Rolling Stone magazine critics taname Kravitz best new male singerr-Healso wrote the songs, produced the-record and played most of the instruments. The 26-year-old also produced the controversial song “Justify My Love” for Madonna. The vidwo, which depicted mild sado masochism, bisexuality and steamy sex scenes, was promptly banned on MTV, Kravitz became embroiled in his Iown dispute with singer songwriter Ingrid Chavez over who wrote the song. Chavez says she wrote most of the lyrics and was denied credit. "Ingrid had written some of the lyrics on the verses,”., Kravitz acknowledges. “For certain personal and professional reasons at the time, we agreed not to put her name on it. We signed a contract. She gets royalties. It became a big hit and she tried to make like she did the whole thing.” Kravitz says that Chavez had nothing to do with his split and impending divorce from actress Lisa Bonet, best known for TV’s “The Cospy Show.” “That was our own personal, reasons,” he said. They have one' child. Kravitz, son of actress Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willi^ on “The Jeffersons,” and TV executive Sy Kravitz, grew up in Manhattan near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which he said he loved. And sure enough, the Saturday APARTMENT FOR RENT 1002 Coisman Street Do you have a HAPP certifeato which is up for renewal? Do you want to Ive in an almost new two bedroom apartment with central heat and AC? Are you willing to ive within strict guktolinos relating to noise, no drugs, general cleanliness? Would you like one o( the Mowing free inducements: Free Moving, Color TV, VCR, Mattress and Box Springs, Mfcrowevo Oven? 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